SEO Dance

Guy Kawasaki, who’s mantra is to “empower entrepreneurs”, included improving your Google PageRank as one of the ways on how to use LinkedIn. LinkedIn, dubbed as MySpace for adults, is what I consider as one of the most popular method to control one’s online identity. How? Sign up and create your LinkedIn profile and wait a few weeks and then search for your name and you will know.

I think this is the very reason why Guy finds LinkedIn helpful in improving one’s pagerank. However, I think he means one’s Google search engine results pages visibility. PageRank is different from SERPs placement since one does not have to have a high pagerank to gain better search engine placement.

See how he puts it:

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As a part of our blog network promotion, 451press bigwigs came up with a comment contest for non-451press bloggers who read our blogs. Yes, it’s for you our dear visitors.

If you’ve been a lurker on my blog it’s your chance to win $500.

451press will award six prizes to the six randomly chosen comments from this month. There will be one (1) $500 cash prize and five (5) $100 cash prizes. We will contact the winning commenters using the email address they enter with the comment. Comments made through January 31st will be entered in the contest and the winners will be announced on February 1st.

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Conversion is a buzzword that is sometimes mistaken to be just about getting sales from your site. The truth is there are other ways your site can convert depending on your goals, of course. The essence of conversion is being successful on making your visitors do what you expect them to do or learn when they visit your site.

And for those who expects their visitors to learn about answers to their questions. Here is one tool developed to make webmasters know what questions visitors would want to get answered when they visit their website - 103bees.
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Aside from writing linkbaitable content and submitting your site to directories, learn the easier way to get some more inbound links from the best bloggers there are in the blogosphere through blog carnivals, group writing projects and reviews .

Here is a list of bloggers offering free linkbacks:

John Chow

After experimenting on PayPerPost, he decided to get free reviews and linkbacks by asking other bloggers to review his blog in exchange of an inbound link from his blog. With a Technorati rank of 1325 as a result of 1,030 blogs linking back to his blog, it’s a good source of IBL juice, especially if your blog is relevant to John Chow’s blog, which is now containing posts about blog monetization and Here is John Chow’s Review to Get a LinkBack.

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If your New Year’s Resolution is to add more SEO/SEM blog feeds to your RSS reader, thank Lee Odden for his compilation of must-read search marketing blogs.

Some are industry leaders’ like Danny Sullivan’s old blog Daggle and some are the search engines’ own blogs like Inside AdSense, the official AdSense blog.

Tags: seo blogs, search blogs, Lee Odden

It has become my habit to check out my blogs’ Akismet’s Spam section. Although I find it a stressing habit, it still is worth my time because if it weren’t for this compulsive Akismetted comment checking habit, I’d lose some of my clients.

This spam checking extends to my e-mail spam inbox or junk mails. And just today I thought I again discovered a gem from my junk mail box because of this e-mail title:

Search Engine of the Year

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Quintura wants you to add this new search engine made for your kids - Quintura for Kids. It has that visual tag cloud that the main Quintura See and Find ™ visual find engine is very proud of.

The intuitive nature of the cloud allows kids to develop and refine their search by clicking on keywords that appear in the cloud. The interface also allows for relevant searches around a set of rotating icons on the site.

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If you are searching for a kid-safe search engine, my initial reaction is “What an oxymoron!” Seriously, search engines like those do exist, at least that is what they claim.

How do you know if an SE is safe for your kid? Here are some features that you should look for:

1. Fun graphics and flash images

2. Parental filters avoiding results about porn, violence and other non-kid-friendly content

3. Emphasis on educational content or homework help

Most of these search engines are meta search engines. Meta-search engines get results from many other search engines.

Here is a list of kid-friendly search engines:

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SEO Philippines co-member Benj Arriola, an SEO expert, sent this info to the mailing list regarding the Vorgermilten SEO contest.

It is a request for bloggers to post something about this SEO contest with a contest page that has suddenly disappeared from the web just a few days before the contest ended. Benj is supposed to win the contest but with the contest page’s disappearing act, how does he claim his prize? Here is Benj’s post:

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Netconcepts, particularly, Charlie Evans, Sr. developed a Wordpress plugin for SEO tracking - Replace by Referrer.

Replace by Referrer is a free Wordpress plugin that can replace text strings in pages and posts with content specifically referred by search engines and can identify search engine specific sessions.

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What invaluable SEO lessons have you learned this year?

After all those SEO tricks I’ve witnessed work on my sites, this SEO blog remains to be the hardest to make it reach the top of Google.

So, yes, you guessed it right, I’m still aiming for this blog to get a good Google placement. SOON!

And will be working on my other neglected blogs, too.

Threadwatch has this thread on SEO blog cliches. And the most abused phrases, which are either metaphors and similes, for the Threadwatchers are:

• Tinfoil Hat
• Drinking the Kool-Aid
• Jumping the Shark

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